Overview
- Producers have deprogrammed the play Un château de cartes starring Gérard Darmon and replaced it on the schedule with Berlin Berlin, with ticket buyers to be refunded.
- National press reported that nine women who worked on sets have given accounts of repeated inappropriate words, unwanted contact and humiliations attributed to Darmon.
- The controversy led Darmon to step down from the Festival du premier film de la Ciotat jury after feminist groups publicly called for his removal.
- Darmon contests the allegations and, according to the coverage, no formal criminal complaint has been filed against him so far.
- Organizers framed the cancellation as a precaution against mobilizations similar to those seen around other accused figures, reflecting a wider trend of cultural institutions weighing protest and reputational risk when booking artists.